Melsa Ararat is the initiator and the director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey and a member of the Faculty of Management at Sabancı University, Turkey. She is also the founder of ILLAC ltd, a London base advisory services firm focused on governance and sustainability and Logos Asset Management, one of the independent assert management firms in Turkey. A member of ECGI and ICGN, she sits in ICGN’s Awards and Business Ethics Committees. Melsa has been coordinating IFC’s GCGF Emerging Markets Research Network since 2007 and is the director of Carbon Disclosure Project-Turkey since 2009.
Melsa’s research focuses on corporate governance and sustainability in emerging economies. She has published in refereed journals and contributed to numerous books on CG and Sustainability. She is the author of Sustainable Investment in Turkey 2010 report published by IFC.
Interests:
The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets is an important means by which researchers and practitioners can join efforts for understanding how financial capital can be used as an instrument to encourage economic activities that do not create negative externalities. Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy. It is important for me to understand how their growth and development can continue without harm.
e-mail: melsaararat@sabanciuniv.edu
